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GPT-5.1 vs GPT-5.4 vs GPT-5.5

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Winner summary

GPT-5.5 wins 27 of 34 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · arena.

Category leads
agentic·GPT-5.5reasoning·GPT-5.5arena·GPT-5.5knowledge·GPT-5.5general·GPT-5.5math·GPT-5.5coding·GPT-5.5speed·GPT-5.4
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.1
#157 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5.4
#110 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5.5
#64 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.4x better value than GPT-5.4
GPT-5.1
8.4 pts/$
$5.63/M
GPT-5.4
6.0 pts/$
$8.75/M
GPT-5.5
3.3 pts/$
$17.50/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5.1GPT-5.4GPT-5.5
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.7
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
GPT-5.1
17.5
GPT-5.4
52.4
GPT-5.5
55.1
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.5 leads by +1.3
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5.1
72.8
GPT-5.4
93.7
GPT-5.5
95.0
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.5 leads by +11.0
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5.1
17.6
GPT-5.4
74.0
GPT-5.5
85.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GPT-5.5 leads by +12.0
GPT-5.1
1438.5
GPT-5.4
1464.8
GPT-5.5
1476.8
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.5 leads by +15.8
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-5.1
39.0
GPT-5.4
45.3
GPT-5.5
61.1
Cl Bench Life
GPT-5.5 leads by +0.5
GPT-5.1
17.3
GPT-5.4
21.7
GPT-5.5
22.2
DeepResearch Bench
GPT-5.5 leads by +11.2
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
GPT-5.1
42.8
GPT-5.4
35.1
GPT-5.5
54.0
Dtbench
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.7
GPT-5.1
83.5
GPT-5.4
90.7
GPT-5.5
93.3
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.5 leads by +4.1
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.1
31.0
GPT-5.4
47.6
GPT-5.5
51.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.5 leads by +8.3
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.1
12.5
GPT-5.4
27.1
GPT-5.5
35.4
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.5 leads by +1.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5.1
87.0
GPT-5.4
94.9
GPT-5.5
95.8
GSO-Bench
GPT-5.5 leads by +8.8
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
GPT-5.1
13.7
GPT-5.4
31.4
GPT-5.5
40.2
Lmca
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.7
GPT-5.1
51.6
GPT-5.4
61.1
GPT-5.5
63.9
Mystery Game Puzzles
GPT-5.5 leads by +20.9
GPT-5.1
10.8
GPT-5.4
30.6
GPT-5.5
51.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-5.1
88.6
GPT-5.4
97.8
GPT-5.5
100.0
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5.5 leads by +15.0
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
GPT-5.1
48.0
GPT-5.4
45.1
GPT-5.5
63.0
SWE-Bench verified
GPT-5.5 leads by +3.7
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
GPT-5.1
68.0
GPT-5.4
76.9
GPT-5.5
80.6
Terminal Bench
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.9
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency.
GPT-5.1
47.6
GPT-5.4
81.8
GPT-5.5
84.7
WeirdML
GPT-5.5 leads by +24.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-5.1
60.8
GPT-5.4
57.4
GPT-5.5
84.9
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
GPT-5.4 leads by +24.6
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
GPT-5.4
69.4
GPT-5.5
44.9
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
GPT-5.5 leads by +17.6
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
GPT-5.4
57.3
GPT-5.5
74.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
GPT-5.4 leads by +2.3
GPT-5.4
57.2
GPT-5.5
54.8
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
GPT-5.4 leads by +54.0
GPT-5.1
1341.0
GPT-5.4
1395.0
Cl Bench
GPT-5.4 leads by +4.2
GPT-5.1
23.7
GPT-5.4
27.9
Deepswe
GPT-5.5 leads by +15.3
GPT-5.4
51.8
GPT-5.5
67.0
Ebr Bench
GPT-5.5 leads by +8.9
GPT-5.4
25.4
GPT-5.5
34.3
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5.5 leads by +23.5
GPT-5.4
49.0
GPT-5.5
72.5
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5.5 leads by +7.0
GPT-5.4
82.7
GPT-5.5
89.8
Furniture Assembly
GPT-5.5 leads by +9.5
GPT-5.4
10.7
GPT-5.5
20.2
HLE
GPT-5.4 leads by +13.2
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
GPT-5.1
19.8
GPT-5.4
33.0
Mirrorcode
GPT-5.4
23.3
GPT-5.5
23.3
PostTrainBench
GPT-5.5 leads by +3.6
GPT-5.4
20.2
GPT-5.5
23.9
Proofbench
GPT-5.4 leads by +6.0
GPT-5.4
56.0
GPT-5.5
50.0
SimpleBench
GPT-5.5 leads by +19.0
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
GPT-5.1
43.8
GPT-5.5
62.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.1GPT-5.4GPT-5.5
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
17.552.455.1
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
72.893.795.0
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
17.674.085.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1438.51464.81476.8
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
39.045.361.1
Cl Bench Life
17.321.722.2
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
42.835.154.0
Dtbench
83.590.793.3
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
31.047.651.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
12.527.135.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
87.094.995.8
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
13.731.440.2
Lmca
51.661.163.9
Mystery Game Puzzles
10.830.651.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
88.697.8100.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
48.045.163.0
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
68.076.980.6
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency.
47.681.884.7
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
60.857.484.9
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
n/a69.444.9
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
n/a57.374.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
n/a57.254.8
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1341.01395.0n/a
Cl Bench
23.727.9n/a
Deepswe
n/a51.867.0
Ebr Bench
n/a25.434.3
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
n/a49.072.5
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
n/a82.789.8
Furniture Assembly
n/a10.720.2
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
19.833.0n/a
Mirrorcode
n/a23.323.3
PostTrainBench
n/a20.223.9
Proofbench
n/a56.050.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
43.8n/a62.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.1$1.25$10.00400K tokens (~200 books)$34.38
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4$2.50$15.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$56.25
OpenAI logoGPT-5.5$5.00$30.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$112.50